2026-08-24 21:06 UTC
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality doesn't need to make sense. It exists in much the same way as an ultracheap mass printing of the Christian Bible: it's a sacred text so sacred that nobody needs to read it. "In here resides all Truth™," the true believer says of the Bible (no matter how corrupt and degraded the text itself) or of Yudkowsky's solitary creative achievement.
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 21:08
I'll let you in on a little secret: I wrote this thread partly by way of deciding whether I want to bother with reading, or even with skimming, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I will occasionally nerve myself to read intellectually twisted writing to see what it's actually like and reassure myself that yes, my inferences about it are correct. Right now I'm just...spouting off. I haven't actually seen the damn thing. (cont'd)